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A Slave is a Slave, by Henry Beam Piper
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Title: A Slave is a Slave
Author: Henry Beam Piper
Release Date: March 3, 2007 [EBook #20726]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction April 1962. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
A SLAVE IS A SLAVE
BY H. BEAM PIPER
There has always been strong sympathy for the poor, meek, downtrodden slave--the kindly little man, oppressed by cruel and overbearing masters. Could it possibly have been misplaced...?
Jurgen, Prince Trevannion, accepted the coffee cup and lifted it to his lips, then lowered it. These Navy robots always poured coffee too hot; spacemen must have collapsium-lined throats. With the other hand, he punched a button on the robot's keyboard and received a lighted cigarette; turning, he placed the cup on the command-desk in front of him and looked about. The tension was relaxing in Battle-Control, the purposeful pandemonium of the last three hours dying rapidly. Officers of both sexes, in red and blue and yellow and g